The Question That Flummoxed The Great Orator

The question that flummoxed the great orator

John Crace The Guardian,
Friday 3 April 2009

Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis. Normally word perfect, Obama ummed, ahed and waffled for the best part of two and a half minutes. Here, John Crace decodes what he was really thinking ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/03/g20-barack-obama-nick-robinson-question